Past Meetups

Here are some of the subjects we've covered in past meetups. If you're interested in participating by giving a talk, don't worry too much if we've touched on the subject before. New people join every day and there are a lot of subjects warranting a re-visit.

Zenika

July 2018

It’s time to make your React & React Native apps accessible!

Kenza is a React & React Native consultant, working at BreatheLife. In this talk, she will give you actionable tips and tricks on how to make your web apps more accessible, something we, as developers, should be aware of and the champions of. If we don't do it, no one will!

End to end browser testing with Cypress & Testcafe

Jean-François is a Senior Software Engineer at BreatheLife, and in this talk he will go in depth into how to setup up and write end to end browser tests using Cypress and Testcafe, and why you would want to do that in the first place.

123LoadBoard

June 2018

How to speed up React Native development with Ignite

Ignite is a React Native project generator, but also much more than that. If you're interested in speeding up your React Native development, Adrien's going to introduce you to this amazing tool, and what it can do for you and your team.

Should you use React Native?

Thomas will be discussing the aftermath of Airbnb sunsetting React Native and reverting back to fully native mobile development. As a result of that decision, many companies are wondering whether React Native is still a good option, considering one of the big names in the field decided to move on from it.

Bureau Billy

March 2018

Building your own native modules

React Native is a powerful technology in that it allows you to build 90% of the things you need out of the box, but provides you with a way to build the 10% left in a custom way, using Native Modules. Ebou, a McGill student and part-time React Native developer, will show us what exactly is needed to build native modules.

Mylo

November 2017

The State of Navigation in React Native

Adrien is the CTO at Osedea and knowledgeable React & React Native developer. In this talk, he will share some valuable information about a sore subject in React Native: navigation. He will talk about the current available options, their pros and their cons, and his recommendation going forward.

How far can we take sharing code between React DOM and React Native?

Kenza is a React & React Native developer, who developed several monorepo applications using both technologies. She believes a strong advantages React Native has over other cross-platform mobile development libraries is the ability to share code between the web frontend and the mobile apps, as they're both written in React and JS. In this talk, she will share her current strategies, and investigates some experimental options like ReactXP and React Native Web.

Thanks to our Sponsors

Samsao

October 2017

10 things the media hasn't told you about React Native

Beyond the initial feeling of wonder while building mobile interfaces easily and quickly, React Native adopters can feel frustrated when comes the time to transform a proof-of-concept into a production-ready application. Let us take a look at how React Native works under the hood to have a good grasp of the framework architecture and how to deal with advanced concepts like layout, styling, navigation, performance, testing and so on.

Thanks to our Sponsors

Samsao

September 2017

React Native from an iOS Developer's perspective

Kenza is an early adopter of React Native and previously an iOS Developer. She'll give us her perspective on the differences between the developer experiences in iOS and React Native, and which one she preferred.

Thanks to our Sponsors

Samsao

July 2017

A Retrospective on React Native - Lessons Learned

Matthieu Vachon is CTO at Samsao and has worked extensively with React and React Native. After a couple of React Native projects within Samsao, he gathered the entire team to talk about the pros, the cons and the lessons learned. In this talk, he'll share what came out of that conversation.